Tucson Unified Math Week
Join Tucson Unified in its first Math Week March 13-17, 2023!
- Help your school be in the daily top 10 by participating in the K-12 challenge
- Have a blast playing fun, family-friendly math games and reading stories from around the world
- Learn more and join in the fun!
¡Únase al Distrito Unificado de Tucson en su primer Semana de Matemáticas el 13 al 17 de marzo de 2023!
- Ayuda a tu escuela ser entre las 10 mejores diariamente participando en el desafío K-12
- Diviértete con juegos de matemática para toda la familia y leyendo historias de todo el mundo
- ¡Aprende más y únete a la diversión!
Top 10 Schools (as of 3/17/23)
- Doolen Middle School
- Roberts Naylor K-8
- Dodge Traditional Magnet Middle School
- Booth-Fickett Math & Science K-8
- Borton Elementary School
- Utterback Middle School
- Tully Elementary School
- Dunham Elementary School
- Bloom Elementary School
- Sam Hughes Elementary School
Math Week Resources
Pi Day Resources
- Eureka Math - Celebrate The Circle On 3/14 With Eureka Math²®
- IXL - Celebrate National Pi Day with IXL (PDF)
- Pi Day
- PiDay - Join the count down to greatest math day of the year, Pi Day.
- Celebrate Pi Day with NASA - Giving students a chance to join in the fun by using pi to explore Earth and space themselves in our 10th annual NASA Pi Day Challenge
- International Math Day
Mathematician of the day
Monday - Marta Civil
- Civil earned her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
- Currently is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Arizona
- Current focus is on socio-cultural approach to the mathematics education of ethnic and language minority students.
- Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Read more about Martha Civil, Lifetime Achievement Award
Tuesday – Pi Day
- History of Pi, from Babylonians to the Swiss. Read how all the amazing mathematicians of their time discovered Pi in their own way. Proving once again, there is more than one way to solve a problem.
Wednesday - Mary Jackson
- First female African-America to graduate from the University of Virginia all-white engineering program.
- NASA's first female African-America engineer
- Recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest medal given by congress.
- NASA's headquarters building in Washington, D.C. was renamed the Mary W. Jackson building
- Read more about Mary Jackson
Thursday - Aaron Yazzie (Navajo Nation)
- Born in Tuba City, AZ, Aaron Yazzie graduated from Stanford University in the math discipline of Mechanical Engineering.
- Worked on Mars mission rover, Perseverance, that gathered soil samples for NASA to analyze.
- Yazzie was featured in the book Notable Native People
- Read more about Aaron Yazzie and his work on Mars.
Friday - Carlos Castillo-Chavez
- Professor of Mathematical Biology at Arizona State University
- Founder of the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI) and the Institute for Strengthening the Understanding of Mathematics and Science
- Recipient of three Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring
- Read more about Dr. Castillo-Chavez (PDF)